Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,929, John Garrison, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Garrison, John
R 3929
CONTENTS

John Garrison Declaration 10/7/92.
C. Loomis Agent Rushville N.Y.
Reserted 5 mo after enlistment
Passed

State of New York Ontario County p. ?
On this twenty seventh day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the County Court of the County of Ontario aforesaid, now sitting. John Garrison, a resident of the town of Victor in the County of Ontario aforesaid, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated -
In the year year 1779 in the spring or early part of summer he enlisted to serve as a soldier under Capt. Chipman - for the term of nine months - but whether in the State troops or Militia of the State of New York he cannot state - He joined the Company under Capt. Chipman at Fort Edward on the Hudson River and served at that Post four or five months when he enlisted as a soldier in the regular service for the term of five years or during the war - with Lieut. Colbreath - as he thinks was the name of the Officer by whom he was enlisted. Immediately after such enlistment he proceeded to Albany - was put on

2 a sloop and landed at West Point where he was enrolled in a Company commanded by Capt. Sights (as he thinks the name was called) in Col. Gausevort's Regiment - being according to his recollection the Third New York Regiment of the line - After remaining at West Point a few weeks deponent with the said Company and Regiment crossed the Hudson River and was stationed a little distance down the River - at a place the name of which he cannot now recollect. He then marched with the said Company and Regiment into the State of New Jersey. On such march deponent was ordered by his commanding officer to take charge of a Baggage Wagon, and he continued in such employment till Peace was declared. While so employed he was under the direction of a Wagon Master - and engaged in transporting Baggage and provisions for the Army, wherever they moved - particularly he recollects being at Pompton and Morristown - Deponent on one occasion while transporting Boats loaded on Waggons from Pompton to Newark, the Waggons and Guard narrowly escaped capture and was obliged to retreat back. Deponent was stationed with the team of which he had charge during the first winter - at a place in New Jersey called The Ponds - Deponent continued in the service - through the following season - and in
the autumn of the year he was ordered to carry a load of Clothing and Cooking Utensil from Hackensack in New Jersey to Newburgh in New York where he delivered his load - etc.

Deponent was stationed with the team of which he had charge during the first winter at a place in New Jersey called The Ponds . - Deponent continued in the service through the following season and in
the autumn of the year he was ordered to carry a load of Clothing and Cooking Utensil from Suckasunny in New Jersey to Newburgh in New York where he delivered his load and team at that place to the Waggou Master, at Newburgh whose name he does not recollect. He was there dismissed intelligence of Peace with Great Britain having been received. After having been first ordered to take charge of a team and horses belonging to the United States service, he continued in such service till peace was declared and he was so dismissed without again having been mustered in the Company in which he had been enrolled. The said Deponent further saith
1 st That he was born as he has understood at a place called Paulings kill in the state of New Jersey in the year 1763 on the 30 th day of March - 2 That he has no record of his age - 3 That he lived at Pittstown in the state of New York when he enlisted into the service as aforesaid that since the revolutionary war he removed from that place to Wellstown in the same state - Thence to Schenectady - thence to Gosham in the County of Ontario , aforesaid - and about five months since to Victor in the same County where he now resides 4 th He enlisted as above stated -

5 Recollects Col. Cortlandt - at West Point and also in New Jersey as in Command of a Regiment stationed next to Col. Gausevoort's Regiment to which deponent belonged.
6 He never received any regular written discharge from the said service
7 Abraham Garrison & John Francisco of Gorham aforesaid are persons who as he thinks have personal knowledge of his said service or of some part thereof.
The said deponent further saith that he is not confident that the year in which he first enlisted as aforesaid was 1779 - that it may have been 1780 -
I sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid - in open court }
John garrison
We Michael A. Francisco and Levi Francisco residing in the town of Gorham in the County of Ontario aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Garrison who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be sixty nine years of age - That he is reputed and believed in
The neighborhood in which he has resided more than sixteen years last past excepting about five months and in which neighborhood we now reside - to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion - Levi Francisco
I sworn & subscribed the day & year

The neighborhood in which he has resided more than sixteen years last past excepting about five months and in which neighborhood we now reside - to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion - Said Francisco
I worn & subscribed the day of Year aforesaid - in open Court. ]
Mich l A Francisco
5
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Michael Francisco and Levi Francisco, who have signed the foregoing certificate are both residents of the town of Durham, are credible persons, and that their state- ment is entitled to credit.
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of the court of Common pleas afore- said, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Parrison for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fifth day of September A.D. 1832.
Charles Crane

State of New York } Wayne County ss }
I Gullen Foster Deputy Clerk of said county do certify that David Arne Jr. before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date thereof a Judge of the County Courts in and for said county duly appointed and sworn. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe the signature of said Judge under the said affidavit hereto annexed is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twenty-second day of August AD 1832.
Gullen Foster, Dep. Clk
State of New York } ss John Bratt of the County of Wayne Wayne County } being duly sworn deposeth & says that he knew John Garrison of the County of Ontario and did know him in the Revolutionary War that the said Garrison served as a clapsman among the troops of the State of New York with fact the said John Bratt knew from his own knowledge as he served in the same company under Captain Chipman at Fort Edward & served four months then enlisted in the Line of the State for five years or during the War under Captain Sygates and went to West Point & joined the army under Colonel Gansevoort
Sworn and subscribed John Bratt This 2nd day of Feb 1825
David Arne } Judge of the County

New York Revd:
Act 7 June 1832
Rejected
See letter 6 th Dec 1832 to L Loomis
Rushville
3929

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
3929
P. O.
John Garrison
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

In the Matter of John Garrison
emry #3929
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1966.
Re #3,929
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State of New York Ontario County ss.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 13th of May 1828, I John Garrison of the Town of Gorham in the County of Ontario and State of New York do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for five years or during the War, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a private in Captain Lyghtes Company, in the third New York Regiment, of the Continental Line under the Command of Colonel Van Seroock - but that I never received a certificate, to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 13th of May 1798.
And I further declare, that I was not, on the fifteenth day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States.
Witness my hand, this eighteenth day of March, in the year One thousand Eight hundred and thirty one.
John Garrison
Not allowed
act 1828.
State of New York Ontario County ss.
Before me Richard M. Bayh a Notary Public in the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared this first day of July 1831 - John Datt of the County of Ulster and State aforesaid, and did make oath that John Garrison by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, did enlist in the Company commanded by Captain Lyghtes in

in the third New York Regiment on the Continental establish- ment of the Revolutionary War, commanded by Colo- nel Gansevoort, for the term of five years or during the war, that the the said John Pratt enlisted in the same Company at the same time, and that they joined the Army together at West Point and served to the end of the War. — Witness My hand this first day of July in the year 1831
John N Pratt
Sworn and Subscribed this 1 st day of July 1831 before me R W Bayly M.P.

State of New York Ontario County } ss.
Be it known that before me Richard M. Bayly a Notary Public in said County personally appeared Abraham Garrison of the Town of Gorham County and State aforesaid and made oath in due form of Law that he is Brother to John Garrison of same place who is now an applicant for a pension and knows that said John Garrison served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary but does not know how long - that during the service of said John he saw him with the Army under the command of General Washington in the State of New Jersey -
Abraham his Garrison Mark
Subscribed and sworn before me this 6 day of July 1831 RM Bayly M.P.
State of New York } ss. Ontario County } ss.
Be it known that before me Richard M. Bayly a Notary Public in the County aforesaid personally appeared Michael Francis and made oath in due form of Law that during the Revolutionary War he was ordered with others in the Militia to Fort Edward then in the County of Albany and State of New York and then and there he met with John Garrison now of the Town of Gorham County of Ontario and State of New York who was mustered with the regular Army and that he then told this deponent that he had enlisted in the Continental Service
Sworn and Subscribed this 6th day of July 1831 before me Michael Francis RM Bayly M.P.